Founded in 1979 by MIT students Dave Lebling, Marc Blank, Joel Berez and Al Vezza.Until 1985, Infocom were independent, then shortly after, Activision bought them.In 1989, due to rising costs and continuously falling profits, the Infocom division was eventually shut down by Activision; yet there were released a handful of post-1989 titles developed by Infocom and published by Activision, such as ''Lost Treasures of Infocom'' (Amiga version released in 1992).